Threshold Between Quotes by Douglas Hofstadter

More Quotes by Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
• If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out…
• Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals…
• This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
• We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
• Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
• I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…

See all 40 quotes by Douglas Hofstadter »